Cold wars and proxy conflicts

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines the human exodus from China to Taiwan in 1949, focusing on trauma, memory, and identity.

Few politicians in recent American history are as well-known as Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.

In the Direction of the Persian Gulf (1977) analyses the Soviet Union's interest in the countries of the Persian Gulf against the background of its relations with the Arab world, and the complexities of power politics.

As a recording device, photography plays a unique role in how we remember places and events that happened there.

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Ukrainian literary world has not only experienced a true blossoming of women's prose, but has also witnessed a number of female authors assume the roles of literary trendsetters and authoritative critics of their culture.

In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere, from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell everything, including war.

This interdisciplinary text takes into account the impact of the Cold War on various locales, groups, societies, organizations, and technology.

This book is a comprehensive historical study of the Bolshevik system of ideological and political indoctrination of a substantial number of Chinese revolutionaries, who studied in Comintern international institutions in Soviet Russia from the October Revolution of 1917 to the Great Terror of the late 1930s.

The first major study of British communist composer Alan Bush, providing new perspectives on music and politics during the Cold War.

DER SHOWDOWN DER SUPERMÄCHTE: KOMPAKT UND ANSCHAULICH ERZÄHLTVon 1945 bis 1991 war die Welt in zwei Lager geteilt, die sich unversöhnlich gegenüberstanden: auf der einen Seite die WESTLICHEN DEMOKRATIEN unter Führung der USA, auf der anderen Seite die KOMMUNISTISCHEN STAATEN unter Führung der SOWJETUNION.

Offering a global account of the 'long' World War II, this book challenges conventional narratives that picture a clearly defined war period (1939-1945) followed by a distinct postwar era dominated by the encroaching cold war.

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, Richard K.

The first book to tell the story of day-to-day life on the nuclear home front - from the host of #1 podcast Atomic Hobo**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK and A GUARDIAN BEST PAPERBACK FOR APRIL 2024 **'So entertaining' THE TIMES'Cracking' SUNDAY TELEGRAPHThe atomic bombs of 1945 changed everything.

Science during the Cold War has become a matter of lively interest within the historical research community, attracting the attention of scholars concerned with the history of science, the Cold War, and environmental history.

This book, first published in 1987, examines the experience of the North Vietnamese economy during the struggle for national reunification and the Vietnam war.

The Oxford Handbook of the Cold War offers a broad reassessment of the period war based on new conceptual frameworks developed in the field of international history.

This pictorial journey takes the reader from the very beginning of the Skunk Works' very first project (XP-80 Shooting Star) and follows the programme through prototype build-up, first flight and, if they reached the frontline, operational service.

Cet ouvrage s’appuie sur un certain nombre de recherches publiées depuis 1990 sur la question des représentations partagées/collectives/« communautaires » et des idéologies, concernant essentiellement le domaine langagier et singulièrement sa dimension sociolinguistique, en rendant hommage aux promoteurs psychosociologues de la notion de représentation sociale.

Eleanor M.

This book presents a comprehensive re-examination of the cinemas of the Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe during the communist era.

This book examines Winston Churchill's role in the creation and development of the Anglo-American special relationship.

Examines the role of racism within international relations bureaucracies during years of Zimbabwe diplomacy, before and after Independence.

This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of 'Second-Third World' interaction during the Cold War.

Between 1900 and 1960, many writers in France and Britain either had parallel careers in diplomatic corps or frequented diplomatic circles: Paul Claudel, Albert Cohen, Lawrence Durrell, Graham Greene, John le Carre, Andre Malraux, Nancy Mitford, Marcel Proust, and others.

The Soviet Union and Egypt, first published in 1993, sheds new light on Soviet policy towards the Middle East after 1945.

The wars of decolonization fought by European colonial powers after 1945 had their origins in the fraught history of imperial domination, but were framed and shaped by the emerging politics of the Cold War.

Drawing on unpublished archival sources, this book reconstitutes the experiences of a wide range of American artists, critics, and writers working in Rome in a charged environment of Cold War cosmopolitanism.

Spanish Fascist Writing presents the first collection of Spanish fascist texts in English translation and offers an intellectual and political history of fascist writing in Spain, a history that resituates the country within the larger unfolding of right-wing extremism worldwide from the early twentieth century to the present.

This book, first published in 1989, examines the creation and implementation of Communist policy in Vietnam during the crucial period between the 1954 Geneva Conference and the establishment of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam in December 1960.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japan, China, and both Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Northeast Asia.

The TSR2 is one of the greatest 'what-if' aircraft of the Cold War, whose cancellation still generates anger and controversy among aviation fans.

This book illuminates how Berkner became a model that produced the scientist/advisor/policymaker that helped build post-war America.

The previously untold true story of the CIA’s clandestine use of American students as undercover operatives during the Cold War In 1967, CIA director Richard Helms had, as he would later recall, “one of my darkest days” when President Lyndon Johnson told him that the muckraking magazine Ramparts was about to expose one of the Agency’s best-kept secrets: a covert project to enroll American students in the crusade against communism.

The Socialist Life of Modern Architecture is the first systematic architectural history of Romania under socialism written in English.

Among Eastern Europe's postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe's liberal democracies.

This book explores Soviet-North Korean relations during the Cold War (1945-1991).

Latin America and the Global Cold War analyzes more than a dozen of Latin Americas forgotten encounters with Africa, Asia, and the Communist world, and by placing the region in meaningful dialogue with the wider Global South, this volume produces the first truly global history of contemporary Latin America.

This book explores contested notions of "e;Chineseness"e; in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong during the Cold War, showing how competing ideas about "e;Chineseness"e; were an important ideological factor at play in the region.

Bringing a fresh perspective to an understudied area, this book offers a critical, source-based examination and assessment of the roles of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (KPG) and the US during World War II in the rebirth of Korea as a nation state.

The growing influence of Russia on the Western far right has been much discussed in the media recently.

In his farewell address, Dwight D.

This collection, comprising key works by James J.

A lively, concise and cutting-edge biography of one of the towering figures of 20th-century history.

Imaging and Mapping Eastern Europe puts images centre stage and argues for the agency of the visual in the construction of Europe's east as a socio-political and cultural entity.

First published in 1974, this book collects interviews with leading Czechslovak filmmakers conducted mostly between 1967 and 1969.

The importance of oil for national military-industrial complexes appeared more clearly than ever in the Cold War.

The Future of the World is devoted to the intriguing field of study which emerged after World War Two, futurism or futurology.